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Reason is an integrated software music recording and
production studio with audio recording, million-dollar mixing, and a massive
collection of instruments, sounds and effects included for writing, recording,
remixing and producing great-sounding tracks.
At the heart of Reason is the virtual rack that builds
itself as you create your song. Create instruments and effects and route them
any way you want to. Add, delete, replace and tweak. Your rack is what you want
it to be. Need more gear? No problem. Choose a synth, a drum machine, a loop
player or any device from the Create menu and it will instantly appear in your
rack, logically patched into the signal chain. And because Reason is designed
to go easy on your computer, you can repeat the process until you're more than
happy.
A single key press will turn Reason's rack around, and
there you are, in patch cord heaven. Most audio connections are made
automatically. When a new device is created, it appears immediately below the
currently selected device, and Reason patches it into the system in the most
logical way. Repatch by dragging the patch cord plug to the desired connector
to build your own sounds — or tweak the included presets.
Each unit in Reason's virtual rack is edited from its
own on-screen front panel. All the sliders, knobs, buttons and functions are
right in front of you, ready to be tweaked, turned and twisted in absolute
real-time. And all your front panel actions — filter adjustments, pitch
bending, gain riding or panning — can be recorded and automated in the Reason
sequencer.
When you need even more creative options, Rack
Extensions come to the rescue. The Rack Extension technology, new in this
version of Reason, lets you expand your collection with the instruments and
effects your music needs. Created by Propellerhead and other developers, Rack
Extensions are full Reason rack citizens, giving you the same fully integrated
experience as when using any of the included devices.
For guitar and bass players, Reason comes installed with
separate guitar and bass POD® units from amp and cab simulation experts Line 6.
With bass and guitar amplifiers available for every single track in your
project, you are never short of interesting tones and timbres. As the Line 6
amplifiers are insert effects and don't affect the original instrument signal,
you are free to change your amplifier and cabinet settings at any point in
time–even after laying down your track.
The powerful sequencer is where you will find yourself
doing most of the work. While keeping Reason’s famous ease of use, it still
comes with all the editing features you need. An audio channel, sequencer
device or instrument gets its own dedicated track, with separate lanes for
audio, notes, performance and automation data, opting for a better overview and
less clutter.
All sequencer data — notes, automation, the works — is
housed in clips; musical building blocks that can be opened, sliced or moved.
When a clip is moved to a new location, all its internal data follows right
along with it, always ending up exactly where you intended it to. For safe,
speedy sequencing. The Tool window is an ever present floating window that
provides lightning fast access to those detailed editing functions you use all
the time; quantize, transpose, note velocity, note length and legato. Always in
sync with your flow, forever adapting to you and your working methods, Reason's
sequencer simply gets you there faster.
With the now legendary non-destructive time stretch, you
can actually record first and pick your tempo later. And thanks to audio
transpose you can even record first and change the key later. Change the tempo
of your song, and the audio follows right along. Non-destructively change the
pitch with a mouse click.
The fully equipped mixing desk adds a big studio signal
chain to all your sound sources. The Reason mixing console's sound and signal
processing was faithfully modeled after* the legendary SSL® 9000k analog mixing
desk. Flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, advanced effects handling, full
automation and a 64-bit mix bus gives you that big studio sound right out of
your computer. And yes, you do get that master-bus compression.
Finding your sound is an important part of the musical
process. With Gigabytes of synths, samples, drum kits, and effects, Reason's
sound bank is packed with everything you'll need from the start. Want more?
Expand your palette with a world of ReFill libraries.
Reason’s legendary flow lets you stay focused on the
music and explore your options as you go along. With a completely integrated
environment like Reason, you will face fewer dialog boxes, more inspiration and
more music.
Features:
Included instruments
-
Kong
Drum Designer
- Thor
polysonic synthesizer
- NN19
sampler
NN-XT
advanced sampler
- Malström
graintable synthesizer
- Dr.
Octo Rex loop player
- Redrum
pattern-based drum machine
- Subtractor
analog subtractive synthesizer
ID-8
songwriter's toolbox
- Combinator,
for building chains of instruments, effects, and pattern sequencers.
Included effects
-
Alligator
triple channel pattern based gate
- Pulveriser
distortion, compressor and envelope follower module
- The
Echo high quality stereo echo
- Neptune
pitch corrector and voice synthesizer
-
Line
6 virtual guitar amplifier
Line
6 virtual bass amplifier
- RV-7
digital reverb
- DDL-1
digital delay line
- D-11
foldback distortion
- ECF-42
envelope-controlled filter
DF-101
chorus/flanger
-
PH-90
phaser
- COMP-01
compressor
- PEQ2
2-band EQ
- RV7000
advanced reverb
- Scream
4 Sound Destruction Unit
-
BV512
vocoder with 4 to 512 bands and equalization
- UN16
unison
- 4-band
mastering EQ
Dual
band stereo imager
- Stereo
compressor with sidechain input, soft-knee mode and CV out
- Maximizer
with look-ahead and soft clip
Modeled mixing console with complete channel strip for
every instrument and audio channel
- Gain
- 4-band
EQ
- 8
Send effects slots
- Insert
effect slot
- Master
compressor with sidechain input
- Dynamics
section with compressor and gate
-
Lo-pass
and hi-passfilter
Other features;
-
Rack
Extension technology lets you expand your collection of instruments and effects
with the devices you want
- Unlimited
audio recording and instrument channels
- Fully
featured high-precision multitrack sequencer with Blocks mode and audio comping
tools
High
quality realtime time stretch & audio transpose
- Advanced
exporting — export your separate mixer channels as individual audio stems,
including effects and tempo trackLive
sampling
- RPG-8
Monophonic ArpeggiatorReGroove
Mixer real-time groove console
- Matrix
pattern-based sequencer 14
x 2 mixer w/ EQ and effects send/return6:2
channel stereo line mixer
- Spider
Audio Merger & Splitter
Spider
Control Voltage Merger & Splitter
- Remote
mapping to external MIDI controllers and hardware control surfaces
- Comes
with a huge factory sound bank, with patches for all Reason's devices, samples,
and loops
- ReWire
support
- Multicore
support and 64-bit compatibility makes Reason fast and powerful on any computer
System Requirements
Mac OS X
- Intel Mac (multiple cores highly recommended)
- 2 GB RAM (more highly recommended)
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
- 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
- Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger
- A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
- Internet connection for registration
- Free USB port for Ignition Key
- CoreAudio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Opteron or better (multiple cores highly recommended)
- 2 GB RAM (more highly recommended)
- Windows XP SP3, Vista or Windows 7 (Vista or Windows 7 required for 64-bit)
- 3 GB free hard disk space
- Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or larger
- A 16 bit Windows compatible audio card, preferably with an ASIO driver
- Internet connection for registration
- Free USB port for Ignition Key
- A MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended
* All product names used are
trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way constitutes an association
or affiliation with Propellerhead Software. The SSL trademark is solely used to
identify the products whose sound was studied during Propellerhead Software's
sound modeling development. The trademarks SSL is owned by Red Lion 49 Limited.
Line 6 and POD are registered trademarks of Line
6, Inc. used under license. All rights reserved